Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the...

The Katherine Dunham Company, a troupe of dancers, singers, actors and musicians, was the first African-American modern dance company. Founded in Chicago...

2018) was an American dancer and actress who was a member of the Katherine Dunham Company, and the first African American ballerina to perform with the...

period (c. 1923–1946), choreographers Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Katherine Dunham, Charles Weidman, and Lester Horton sought to develop distinctively...

at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She also studied dance at the Katherine Dunham School of Dance and Theatre in New York City. In the late 1950s and...

in arguably the screen's most bravura dance sequence, Fats Waller, Katherine Dunham and her dancers, and Dooley Wilson. Stormy Weather takes its title...

School of Performing Arts). Kitt began her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company in 1943 and remained a member of the troupe until 1948. A talented...

McKinney, Billie Holiday, Midge Williams, Lena Horne, and dancers such as Katherine Dunham, Bill Robinson, The Nicholas Brothers, Charles 'Honi' Coles, Leonard...

Ladies, Kind Gentlemen (1970). She was also a notable member of the Katherine Dunham Company and performed African dance with Syvilla Fort. Chinn was born...

For several years he was a partner of Katherine Dunham in her dance company. He was among the teachers of Dunham Technique at her school. Archie was one...

Notable people included: Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) trained in ballet, founded Ballet Negre in 1936 and then the Katherine Dunham Dance Company based in...

95. Katherine Dunham Technique – Library of Congress A 2-½ hour presentation of the dance technique of anthropologist-choreographer Katherine Dunham. Funded...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Katherine Dunham Company. Hollywood and Broadway have also provided opportunities for...

choreograph and perform. Katherine Dunham was a significant contributor to the involvement of Black women in ballet. In 1931, Dunham helped establish Ballet...

Minns and Leon James, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Dawn Hampton, and Katherine Dunham. Dramatic jazz dance performed on the show stage was promoted by Jack...

org. May 11, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2020. Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection. "Stormy Weather". Library of Congress. Retrieved December...

his second wife Julie Robinson (1928-2024), a former dancer with the Katherine Dunham Company who was of Jewish descent. They had two children: Gina and...

House Un-American Activities Committee hearing. The film co-stars Katherine Dunham who acted as the film's choreographer. The film stars Silvana Mangano...

went to New York to study dancing where she got a scholarship at the Katherine Dunham School of Dance. To avoid typecasting because of her name, she became...

writer, actress and dancer. She is a former principal dancer with the Katherine Dunham, Agnes de Mille and Talley Beatty dance companies and has performed...

African American dancer Katherine Dunham who was then Artist-in-Residence at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Dunham partnered with SIUE's Experiment...

him, when he saw Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo on a school trip and Katherine Dunham Dance Company's "Tropical Review" on solitary trips to the Los Angeles...

the original Broadway cast. Le Jazz Hot was also choreographed by Katherine Dunham. The song featured Victor/Victoria's debut to the world and the stage...

George Abbott Lillian Gish Benny Goodman Gene Kelly Eugene Ormandy 1983 Katherine Dunham Elia Kazan Frank Sinatra James Stewart Virgil Thomson 1984 Lena Horne...

teacher of jazz and modern dance. He was a certified master teacher of Katherine Dunham technique. He was professionally active for nearly 60 years. Nicks...

opened at the theater in July 1949, running for three months. The Katherine Dunham Company performed at the Broadway in 1950, followed by Olsen and Johnson's...

Some notable Americans who have Malagasy ancestry include Andy Razaf, Katherine Dunham, Regina M. Anderson, William H. Hastie, George Schuyler and Philippa...

George Abbott Lillian Gish Benny Goodman Gene Kelly Eugene Ormandy 1983 Katherine Dunham Elia Kazan Frank Sinatra James Stewart Virgil Thomson 1984 Lena Horne...

West End, playing Ophelia (opposite John Gielgud's legendary Hamlet) and Katherine (opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V). She entered films in Britain, but...

Brazil's anti-discrimination laws, which were passed in the 1950s after Katherine Dunham, an African-American dancer touring Brazil, was barred from a hotel...